For more information on tea’s health benefits, please visit the following websites:
General Info: Specialty Tea Institute
Dr. Andrew Weil, MD
Tea Experience
Cancer: American institute of Cancer Research
Autoimmune Disorders: Georgia Medical Collage Press Release
Heart Disease: Health Bulletin
General Info: Specialty Tea Institute
Dr. Andrew Weil, MD
Tea Experience
Cancer: American institute of Cancer Research
Autoimmune Disorders: Georgia Medical Collage Press Release
Heart Disease: Health Bulletin
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Tea and Health
If you are cold, tea will warm you,
If you are too heated, it will cool you,
If you are depressed, it will cheer you,
If you are to excited, it will calm you
William Ewart Gladstone
The health benefits of tea have been long known. In China, where tea was first
discovered and cultivated, it was originally a medicinal drink to help with colds,
indigestion and to function as a tonic, strengthening the body’s own healing system.
The renaissance of tea is in part a result of scientific studies that seem to
substantiate this age-old wisdom.
Over the past 20 years, researchers have designed studies to examine tea’s
possible health attributes. They found that tea contains flavinoids, naturally
occurring compounds with antioxidant properties. Antioxidants help the body to
neutralize free radicals, which, over time, can damage genetic material, and
contribute to chronic disease.
Overall, studies conducted on green tea and black tea has yielded similar results
and even though green tea is more often associated with health, drinking black tea
is believed to reduce the risk of heart disease and stroke. Whether green, white, or
black, tea may also play a role in bone health, as the findings of a recent study
published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, indicated.
flavinoids are not the only component of the plant Camellia Sinensis which positively
affect our health, as the list of constituents and their related health benefits (from
Green Tea and Human Health by Dr. Itaro Oguni) shows.
If you are cold, tea will warm you,
If you are too heated, it will cool you,
If you are depressed, it will cheer you,
If you are to excited, it will calm you
William Ewart Gladstone
The health benefits of tea have been long known. In China, where tea was first
discovered and cultivated, it was originally a medicinal drink to help with colds,
indigestion and to function as a tonic, strengthening the body’s own healing system.
The renaissance of tea is in part a result of scientific studies that seem to
substantiate this age-old wisdom.
Over the past 20 years, researchers have designed studies to examine tea’s
possible health attributes. They found that tea contains flavinoids, naturally
occurring compounds with antioxidant properties. Antioxidants help the body to
neutralize free radicals, which, over time, can damage genetic material, and
contribute to chronic disease.
Overall, studies conducted on green tea and black tea has yielded similar results
and even though green tea is more often associated with health, drinking black tea
is believed to reduce the risk of heart disease and stroke. Whether green, white, or
black, tea may also play a role in bone health, as the findings of a recent study
published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, indicated.
flavinoids are not the only component of the plant Camellia Sinensis which positively
affect our health, as the list of constituents and their related health benefits (from
Green Tea and Human Health by Dr. Itaro Oguni) shows.
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